A World of Words: Jean François Porchez speaking at St Bride, London
A World of Words: Described as French typographic legend by Grafik, Jean Francois Porchez has designed bespoke fonts for a boggling array of global brands: Le Monde, the Paris Metro, Louis Vuitton, Galleries Lafayette, Sephora, YSL Beauté and Nespresso, to name but a few. In his talk next Tuesday he will share his experiences as an expert in the design of bespoke typefaces.
Mencken: An American Scotch typeface remixed à la française in 63 styles
Mencken is a new Typofonderie typeface. The new typeface has sixty-three styles, divided into three widths, three optical sizes, romans, italics, borders and dingbats. Mencken is unique because it is designed according to different axis and optical sizes. Firstly, the Mencken Text is a low-contrast transitional type designed on an oblique axis, asserting horizontal, featuring open counters. On the other side of the spectrum, the Mencken Head (and narrow variations) is designed on a vertical axis, high contrast, in a contemporary Didot style.
Aurélien Vret, a multidisciplinary type designer
Aurélien Vret is an artist who, for the first time, publishes a typeface. His approach is not usual, it does not fit into the usual patterns of the type designer, graphic designer in parallel. In fact, it seemed interesting to understand his background and to understand the interaction of his different activities. He published Prosaic with Typofonderie in 2017 after a few years of hard work on this project.
Jean François Porchez in Segovia for IV Jornadas para docentes de escuelas de arte
For the fourth Jornadas para docentes de escuelas de arte in Segovia, Spain, Jean François Porchez will address his talk on two topics. 1. Why typography is a vital asset of business communication. 2. How to pedagogy is intrinsically connected to Jean François’s design practice?
The Typofonderie specimens booklet now available
This new Typofonderie booklet was created with the utmost care to gather the collection of our typeface specimens started in 2004. The booklet include specimens featuring fourteen Typofonderie typefaces, stickers and few others goodies. Learn more
Prosaic: A Postmodern vernacular sanserif by Aurélien Vret
Welcome to Prosaic, a new typeface designed by Aurélien Vret. Prosaic is radical, because it comes from a long artistic reflection of its designer, also a multidisciplinary artist. The Prosaic is also a dual tone typeface because it knows how to serve the readability in very small sizes and brings a sturdy typographic power to large sizes. Read more about Prosaic, a Postmodern typographic tribute to the french vernacular signs.
Happy new year 2017
For this new year 2017 we wish you very promising and successful year. Best wishes of happiness and prosperity. Thank you for your support, dear typeface users, from amateurs to top experts. Also to anyone we’ve had pleasure to discuss with… Many new things planned for 2017!
Parisine: Introducing narrow and compressed families
We are pleased to announce the publication of Parisine Narrow and Parisine Compressed! Parisine was born as the parisian métro signage typeface. This family of typefaces has become over years one of the symbols of Paris as the Johnston for the London Underground or the Helvetica for the New York Subway. The Parisine was created to accompany travelers in their daily uses: ultra-readable, friendly, human while the context is a priori hostile.
PS Fournier: web and printed specimens now available
PS Fournier, created by Stéphane Elbaz, is designed in tribute to Pierre-Simon Fournier. Following the publication of this typeface, we are pleased to announce the launch of the printed specimen. This specimen was designed by Stéphane Elbaz and includes an original essay (English-French) by the eminent French specialist of type history about Mr Fournier Le Jeune. We are launching a web version of this specimen too!
Ambroise Pro brought back to life: Fifteen years in the making!
Originally published in 2001, this brand new revision of Ambroise Pro, — including new italics — has taken 15 years. It seemed appropriate to explain the design process to young generations of type designers, and to introduce to type users a little glimpse of our everyday world. However to better understand the history of Ambroise, at least a few references to the Didot’s history provides a little clarity… How to approach the history of Didots?